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Bug 107757 - Suggestion for how to handle adding launchers
Suggestion for how to handle adding launchers
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-03-06 19:50 UTC by Havoc Pennington
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Havoc Pennington 2003-03-06 19:50:21 UTC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85733

 Opened by carniz@spray.se (Mikael Carneholm) on 2003-03-06 12:59

Description of Problem:
There's a redundant (non-hierarcical) path when adding a program starter to the
panel. This makes the menu unneccessarily big, as it could be "normalized" down
using a common parent menu item for "Add starter.." and "Add starter from
menu".
I.e, instead of 

Add to panel
	->Program starter
	->Program starter from menu

it could be 
Add to panel
	->Program starter
		->From menu
		->Other.. (replacing current "Program starter.." item)

Additional Information:
If someone would argue that this will result in too many submenu levels, I have
a suggestion that should be considered anyway: let's replace the "menu"-way of
adding starters & applets to the panel with a stand-alone wizard or panel
customizer program instead. That would eliminate long & complicated navigating
through menus and reduce the menu items in the popup menu to just "Customize"
(starts the customizer/wizard), "Properties", "New panel" + "Help" &
"About" items. 
Just my 2 usability euro cents.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2003-10-14 12:52:59 UTC
This is somewhat related to bug #75103.
Comment 2 Mark McLoughlin 2004-08-11 08:22:48 UTC
We have an "Add to Panel" dialog instead of the menu now